About Us

I’m not an astrologer. I’m a data analyst who is a lifelong lover of astrology. As a young person, I could hand over my favorite astrology book, The New Astrology by Suzanne White, to absolutely anyone, and they would find themselves in it. There is still a 30-year-old handwritten note tucked between pages 400 and 401 declaring, “I am a Libra/Tiger and am proud of it!” If you’ve picked it up at any time in the last 10 years, you’ll know to be careful flipping through it. Though I’ve cobbled the binding back together with tape as well as I could, it’s a well-loved book with a long-broken spine. If it were an item in The Velveteen Rabbit, it would definitely be considered “Real.”

I believe that data analytics turn feelings into personal truths, not the other way round, and that a human’s deepest desire is to understand and to be understood. So I combined my talent for data analytics and my love for astrology to create Ask Aunt Starling, the service of my dreams.

Treated as a data set, the components of Western, Vedic, and Chinese astrology work sometimes in harmony and sometimes as enhancements to one another, adding nuance that would otherwise be missing from a reading. All three get the same room here; not one of them is an appendix to the others. Add a dose of numerology, the weather and the state of the earth’s magnetic field on the day you were born and on the day you are living, and synastry between you and your Wingmates, the people you love who you add to your account, and the result is a reading and horoscope that are truly yours and no one else’s.

Use this service to quickly look up which house your Pluto is in when you’re listening to your favorite podcast, or when you come across an online video telling you to empower yourself by dressing for your Venus sign. Use it to ask why you and a family member can’t seem to see eye to eye. You will never meet a word here that I haven’t explained, explained in the place where you meet it, because being made to feel behind is not what anybody came here for. There will be variances and discrepancies along the way, because we are all true individuals with our own sets of experiences and trauma that can’t be measured here, but the spine of it all almost always rings true.

Aunt Starling is my trademarked software that takes your birth information and transforms it into various astrological and numerological data points. Your personally identifying information is kept on Aunt Starling’s side; only certain combinations of your astrological data are sent out to be written up in an easily digestible way, and exactly who does that writing is named in the terms. Your horoscope for a day is written once and then it is yours: it does not change if you refresh the page, or come back to it in the evening. This unique combination is what enables Aunt Starling to provide Truly Personal Astrology just for you.

I hope to grow enough to run my own servers and my own AI in-house one day. Until then, I pledge to run Ask Aunt Starling in the most ethical ways possible. To give back for the AI I use and contribute to the greater good, part of what I earn is set aside each year for the fight against dirty data centers. Once the first of it has gone out, I’ll say here where it went.

This is my contribution.